Rapport fra min praksis i sjelesorg ved Stavanger Universitetssykehus

Evalueringsrapport for institusjonspraksis i emnet PTU4100 Institusjonspraksis med sjelesorg og gudstjeneste [Text in Norwegian; English and German translations below] [Downloadable PDF with text in Norwegian, English and German:] [Kommentar ved Edmund Schilvold: Dette er en ordrett kopi i digital form av rapporten som ble skrevet i kjølvannet av min praksis på Stavanger Universitetssykehus i november…

Dagens vedvarende tanke / Today’s persistent thought

20 March 2024: Like most other people, I have made many mistakes, been entranced by many a popular misconception, and been stiff-necked in my naiveté and ignorance at times, but, unlike many of the incarnated beings of this present Age, I will be able to say, when I meet my Pilot Face to Face (as…

Et nytt platonsk akademi for en ny og vanskelig tid

Av Edmund Schilvold (M.Th.) Oktober 2023 Kan antikkens platonske akademi, som i århundrer spilte en sentral rolle i det gamle Hellas’ og i Europas kulturelle og religiøse liv, men som på 500-tallet ble tvangsnedlagt av den østromerske keiseren, gjenopplives i vår tid, her i det høye nord? Det er et spørsmål jeg har stilt meg…

Åpent brev om vindkraft: «Gi dere selv en gave denne våren! Folkevalgte i Bjerkreim»

Kopi av min tredje mail om vindkraft til politikerne i Bjerkreim kommune (en av de største og naturmessig flotteste kommunene i Rogaland fylke), sendt 9. mars 2023. For tidligere åpne brev til Bjerkreim kommunestyre, se her. Kjære politikere og folkevalgte og andre i Bjerkreim kommune dette måtte angå, Noen av dere vil huske at jeg…

Plato was no «totalitarian», and the «Republic» is primarily an allegory

This article on Plato’s «Republic», by the very insightful Prof. John Ubersax, makes a point which cannot be repeated frequently enough, considering how often Plato’s greatest dialogue is misunderstood and misconstrued, even by scholars, namely that the Politeia (the ancient Greek title of this work) is in fact an extended metaphor, dealing with the life…

The misconstrual of Plato’s Republic, that St. Augustine quotes Socrates, and other discoveries

Below are some examples of what my master’s thesis in theology and philosophy (which you may download for free, as a PDF, by clicking on this link) achieves in terms of research and discoveries: The elucidation of the surprisingly intimate intellectual relationship between one of the foremost fathers of the Christian churches, St. Augustine of…

Master’s thesis «follow-up»: A new and ground-breaking analysis of the Socratic and Platonic concept of the Good (free 24-page essay/e-book)

For the first time since 2020, I am now publishing a major literary production of mine here, on this blog — an essay-like academic paper exclusively devoted to a comprehensive analysis of and certain musings regarding what one might style the ontological nature of Plato’s Good, which, as I believe I have come very close…

Hvorfor den planlagte gigant-utbyggingen på Jørnsåsen ved Holmsbu vil ødelegge sørvestre Hurum

Høringsuttalelse til Nye Asker kommune, med kopi til Fylkesmannen La meg innlede denne høringsuttalelsen til planene for Jørnsåsen med en personlig skildring av Holmsbu og landskapet omkring Holmsbu som jeg skrev forsommeren 2016, da jeg og min familie leide en hytte på søndre del av Holmsåsen, som er åsen umiddelbart nord for Holmsbu sentrum. Denne…

Christmas Musings on the Origin and Future of True Christianity

Was Plato, by virtue of supernatural insight, or some other paranormal power, a “Christian” nearly four centuries before the Incarnation of the Word? That is what some, when confronted with the exceptionally lofty doctrines of Platonism, and the great similarity between some of them and Christianity, have claimed. I do not entirely reject that as…

Ny vei fra Holmsbu til Rødtangen vil føre til mer skade enn gagn – med mindre trasévalget er gjennomtenkt!

Den gamle ideen om ny vei fra Holmsbu-området til Rødtangen på sørvestre Hurum er nylig igjen blitt gjenstand for omfattende diskusjon og debatt, denne gangen på grunn av Nye Asker kommunes forslag om utbygging på Rødtangen. På bakgrunn av dette legger jeg nå ut på nett den konsise ”konsekvensutredningen” jeg skrev og sendte til Hurum…

Utvalgte landskapsbilder i sort-hvitt

Er du på utkikk etter en julegave eller bursdagsgave utenom det vanlige? Eller ønsker du å pynte opp en av veggene i hjemmet ditt, eller på arbeidsplassen din? Et vakkert og interessant fotografi, printet ut i stor størrelse, og kanskje rammet inn med en passende ramme, kan gjøre en kjempeforskjell når det gjelder hvordan et…

A Brief Critique of Religious Empiricism, Logical Positivism, Materialistic Monism and the Anti-Supernaturalism of “N. T. Wright”

Undertaken with the Aid of the Theologia Germanica and Sir A. J. Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic. Or: Countering the Attempt to Entrap the Human Mind in a Verbal Matrix This paper owes its origin to a three-day “home exam” I sat for in November 2018, as part of the master’s program in theology I…

Visions of the Suprarational: A Study of the Concept of Nous in the Works of Plato and St. Augustine of Hippo

My recently completed master’s thesis, which one could say is the culmination of more than ten years of research into the nature of Platonism and Christianity, mysticism and religion, as well as of a very long personal, spiritual journey, is now available for download as an e-book/PDF-file. This is the longest and most significant literary…

En sommerdag i Bjerkreim i Rogaland (foreløpig fjernt fra ”monstermøllene”)

Av Edmund Schilvold Juli 2026 Det er en nydelig, lun og varm sommermorgen med sola allerede høyt oppe på en blå og skyfri himmel som møter meg idet jeg står opp og går ut på terrassen denne dagen, søndag 12. juli 2026. Det er relativt tidlig – klokka er bare sju eller der omkring –…

On Super-Intelligent Human Creators, Human «Apps» in Demiurgic «Operating Systems», and How AI Might Fit into Proclus’ Divine or Celestial Hierarchy

On Super-Intelligent Human Creators, Human «Apps» in Demiurgic «Operating Systems», and How AI Might Fit into Proclus’ Divine or Celestial Hierarchy — a Conversation (Part II; see my earlier posts for Part I) Part I: A discussion with Google’s AI on super-intelligent creators, human “apps” in “demiurgic operating systems”, and our places in Proclus’ Celestial…

The Actual Length of the «Sojourn» of the «Israelites» in Egypt Fits Perfectly with the Length of the Second Intermediate Period

Today I would like to call your attention to what Yosef ben Matiyahu, the Jewish or Israelite priest and military leader who was granted Roman citizenship and adopted the name Titus Flavius Josephus in 69 A.D., and who then went on to become one of the most important writers and historians of antiquity, actually said…

Rapport fra min praksis i sjelesorg ved Stavanger Universitetssykehus

Evalueringsrapport for institusjonspraksis i emnet PTU4100 Institusjonspraksis med sjelesorg og gudstjeneste [Text in Norwegian; English and German translations below] [Downloadable PDF with text in Norwegian, English and German:] [Kommentar ved Edmund Schilvold: Dette er en ordrett kopi i digital form av rapporten som ble skrevet i kjølvannet av min praksis på Stavanger Universitetssykehus i november…

Making sense of Josephus’ «Manethonian» King List and Identifying the Allegedly Ficticious Egyptian King «Amenophis»

The second account of a Semitic invasion and sacking of Egypt and the question of its historicity: {Josephus continues:} 15. But now I shall produce the Egyptians as witnesses to the antiquity of our nation. I shall therefore here bring in Manetho again, and what he writes as to the order of the times in…

Eyewitness to Revolution: When the «Israel» of Real History Invaded and Subdued Egypt

Many modern academics say there is no evidence of the Israelites To be found in the archaeological record, Nor of a mass «Exodus» from Egypt, And most Biblical scholars are not even sure which century The nation of Israel may have left Egypt, BUT what if all this is «smoke and mirrors», Ignorance and dishonesty,…

A prayer to a new, or rather relatively new-found god; the One True God (a new Platonic Hymn)

By Edmund Schilvold November 8, 2025 God of Greatness, God of Goodness, God of Beauty, God of Beautiful Veracity, And of Solemn Truths as well, God of Radiance and Rays of Overflowing Kindness, God not of Cruelty and Nastiness, Nor of Craftiness and Guile, But God of Overwhelming Splendor and Magnificence, Infinitely Patient, and infinitely…

In Memoriam: Sindre Steinkopf (1991–2022), philosopher, theologian, Nietzschean, idealist

Please note: The brief eulogy below was composed by me, Edmund Schilvold, in 2025, in an attempt to honor the memory of Sindre Steinkopf, my dear friend for roughly four years, i.e. from August 2015 and into 2019, when we lost contact, partly due to difficult circumstances beyond our control. It does not do full…

The Collapse of an Ancient Civilization – an Eyewitness Account (?)

Video presentations and documentaries dealing with the decline and fall of various civilizations and societies of the distant past have been garnering surprisingly large numbers of views on platforms like YouTube for some time now. I say surprising because history has often been viewed by the general populace as an eminently boring topic, and because…

On Extroversion and Introversion as fundamental tendencies shaping human history

On Extroversion and Introversion as fundamental tendencies shaping human history and the underlying reason for the perennial conflicts between Rationalism and Empiricism, Nominalism and Realism, Gnosis and Scripture, etc. (Excerpts from Carl Jung’s highly insightful work on Psychological Types, Part One): The following quotes are from the initial part of this extensive work, the part…

My response to Jessica L Scott (Israelite origins, the Saraswati river, «watchers», etc.)

Posting a copy of my latest response to Jessica L Scott here, since I think it contains some important clarifications: Thank you for your response, Jessica. I am glad to see that you were not offended by what I said, and that we seem to be on more or the less same page when it…

Les tilbakemeldinger fra kursdeltagere

«Jeg hadde tre lærerike og hyggelige dager på Jeløya, og ble positivt overrasket over kurset.»

Håkon Haugan, Nøtterøy

Why in the world is Google consistently hiding relevant content on Archive.org from its users?

To Google, the famous Search Engine and Internet Empire, it is as if the Internet Archive, the biggest collection of digitized books and other digitized documents in the world, simply does not exist — or, to put it more precisely, Google is pretending not to know about Archive.org, the world’s biggest library, overflowing with all…

Letter of Recommendation from Mihran Rovelli, an Italian friend of mine

Arch. Mihran Rovelli Via Guanella 922100 ComoItaly Como, 20 august 2014 Professional reccomendation letter about Mr. Edmund Schilvold Dear Sirs, I write you to inform you about my experience with Edmund Schilvold. I met Edmund during a university course we were both attending in Sydney, Australia. Since when we became friends, we realised to share…

Plato’s famous crucified Just Man – the real inspiration underlying the Christian crucifixion narrative (as we now have it), or a supernatural Socratic–Platonic prophesy?

Plato’s famous crucified Just Man – the real inspiration underlying the Christian crucifixion narrative (as we now have it), or a supernatural Socratic–Platonic prophesy predicting the fate of Jesus, the Righteous Notzri/Nazarene? (Easter; Resurrection Day) Below is the famous passage, in Allan Bloom’s literal translation (digitized by the undersigned), as well as the fascinating context:…

Reflections on the “Historicity” of Jesus Christ (Part One, Palm Sunday)

It is probably one of the most important questions a historian of the “West” can ask – due to the implications of whatever the truth of the matter is –, yet one of the most difficult to solve conclusively: Did the Jesus (Greek: Iesous) of the Christian gospels, or someone more or less like him,…